During Grand Slam events, players’ performance obviously and rightfully gets the most attention. Often, sportswriters and bloggers assign players mid-term grades based on their performance in the first week of the event...

Here is a startling statistic: Of the top 100 on the ATP rankings (as of 5/18), only four are non-white: the French duo of Jo-Wilfred Tsonga (#9) and Gael Monfils(#11), American James Blake (#16), and Taipei's Yen-Hsun Lu (#66)...